Experienced DUI Attorney Mark Weingart lends his advice to individuals who have been pulled over and suspected of DUI. If you refuse to take the blood or breathalyzer test, your license can be suspended for a year or more. However, if you submit to taking a breathalyzer or blood test and your alcohol concentration is over .08, the Motor Vehicle Division of the Arizona Department of Transportation will try to suspend your license for at least 90 days.

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MR. MARK WEINGART: Under the implied consent law, if you refuse to take the chemical test, either the breath or the blood test, your license can be suspended for a year. There's a process to it, but it can be. By contrast, if you agree to take a blood test or a breath test, and if the alcohol concentration is over .08, then the Motor Vehicle Department is also going to try to suspend your license. Not for a year, for a shorter period of time, 90 days. This is what called the Admin per se portion of the law. And that’s one of the penalties for the DUI. It's just that this part of the penalty comes from the MVD, the Motor Vehicle Department, and it's a 90 days suspension if you have an alcohol concentration over .08.